angry gamers: blizzard needs to stop filling overwatch with women, gays, and people of color
blizzard: the new hero is a hamster in a hamsterball with guns
gamers: ??
blizzard: also he's gay https://t.co/KXqCRC1ZiT— Rebecca "Space Commie" Watson (@rebeccawatson) June 28, 2018
The Spousal Unit is on vacation this week, and there was much smack talked about Accomplishing Projects around the house / yard, but it’s been almost 100 degrees for the last three days and there’s only so much the window air conditioning units can do against the officially ‘oppressive’ humidity. We did get to the garden center today, and by a miracle I actually found annuals to fill out the remaining flower spaces that met both my critical standards and those of Himself… but that means being outside in the damned daytime tomorrow, hauling planters & shifting dirt. If you don’t see any posts with my name, either the heat got me or I’ve been arrested for spousal murder.
Move over “lock her up.” There’s a new chant sweeping through MAGA country: “SPACE FORCE!” @michaelkosta heads to a Trump rally to see what all the buzz is about: https://t.co/Pg5rZfWhRm pic.twitter.com/v3uTUEgbXw
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) June 27, 2018
opiejeanne
Yay! Don’t get too hot and stay hydrated. Maybe we’ll get to see the results in one of the garden posts?
opiejeanne
I probably missed it but was there an official or unofficial estimate of the people marching on Saturday?
Yutsano
The only space force we need.
And to sleep!
NotMax
I welcome our gay rodent overlords.
Although we and they both know it will be the tardigrades who inherit the Earth.
Suzanne
Mr. Suzanne and Spawn the Elder both love Overwatch.
SectionH
It’s been WHAT temp in Boston, north? Holy and fuck.
Boussinesque
@Suzanne: I’ve kind of avoided the game so far, because I’m more into co-op than PvP, but I have a fair few friends that play, and this might be enough to get me to give it a try.
Mnemosyne
@Suzanne:
My teenage niece and nephew love Overwatch. And, yeah, they like the inclusiveness. Suck it, haterz.
Felanius Kootea
I’m so happy that Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador won the presidential election
in Mexico. Not sure how he will tackle corruption and the drug violence but I know
he won’t allow Trump to humiliate him the way Peña Nieto did.
Viva BrisVegas
@Yutsano:
This is the real Space Force.
No substitute will be accepted.
The MAGAts have gotten tired of screaming “Lock Her Up!”, because even those pea brained morans have finally worked out that it is never going to happen.
Damien
I just picture Trump yelling “Space Force” like Steve Holt
Citizen Alan
I am totally on board with the Space Force if it means we can draft all the MAGA idiots into it and then fire them off into space. Tell them they get a free gun out of the deal. And also that MS-13 is hiding on the Sun.
Shalimar
I am confused about Space Force. Obviously, they only approve of it because guns are involved. But who do they expect the Space Force to fight? They know Power Rangers wasn’t real, right?
Patricia Kayden
@Citizen Alan: Uncivil!! Your comment is why all those bigots voted for a bigot in November 2016. Or so we keep being told by the MSM.
Amir Khalid
I gotta vent.
I decided to take Lady to a music store for a professional setup. On the walk to the train station, I slipped on a piece of fruit that had fallen from a tree onto the street. I fell, tearing my jeans and scraping my knee. When I finally got to the store and took Lady out of the gig bag, the guitar tech and I found a substantial ding that exposed the primer under the finish. I also had to buy a new gig bag, because the old one had suffered a destroyed plastic strap buckle in the fall.
After the music store, I went to the pet store in the mall to replenish Bianca’s food supply. While searching the shelves for senior-cat food, I slipped on a clipboard that had been left lying on the floor and fell again, as before while carrying Lady in a gig bag. (Fortunately, the new gig bag is a much better one and Lady suffered no more damage.) I decided to take a cab home rather than the train, to avoid further stressing out my already-unhappy right knee.
Did I mention that I threw up the lunch I ate at the mall? I guess I have now.
End of rant.
sukabi
@Amir Khalid: sounds like you should have stayed in bed.?
Hope your knee recovers quickly. And your ? plays sweetly.
satby
@Amir Khalid: that was a bad day! Hope you feel better and things go better tomorrow for you and Lady.
satby
I’m struggling with a mystery, my youngest dog, Boomerang Bubba, was missing when I got up this morning and was bringing the dogs out. Missing from inside the basement, of which I went over with a fine tooth comb and high powered flashlight. I heard the dogs barking about 8pm before I locked up for the night,but only for a minute and they do that when my neighbor gets dropped off in the alley between our houses. I haven’t found him anywhere in the basement and now have to wonder if someone came in the back door and snatched him thinking he’s a pit pup. He’s not, he’s a 7 year old beagle-boston terrier mix. TBC.
I hate to think the Mexican guys taking the vines off my house came back and took him,too. But no one else seems likely, and dog fighting rings are Mexican run around here. It’s terrible to hope the little guy is just dead in a place I haven’t found yet rather than stolen for a possible bait dog.
A thousand flouncing lurkers (was fidelioscabinet)
@Amir Khalid: This was all entirely suboptimal. I hope things stop turning against you so.
VOR
@Shalimar: Watch the Daily Show clip. One guy said it would be a waste of money but we ought to do it anyways because the name is cool. A couple thought Space Force would do space exploration. The Daily Show reporter pointed out NASA does that, but they felt Trump ought to send his own things because he would tell us the truth about what’s out there (I wish I was joking). Others invoked ISIS getting drones and satellites. Mostly they are in favor of it because Dear Leader says so.
Scamp Dog
@satby: it’s awful to not know where your dog is. I went through that with the late lamented Biscuit once, for a week and a half. Fortunately it had a happy ending, and I hope it works that way for you, too.
jonas
@Shalimar: I’m hoping it’s more like Voltron, with a team of space lions that join together when something or other needs saving.
Villago Delenda Est
@Patricia Kayden: The MSM needs to be on the rocketship to the Sun.
Villago Delenda Est
@VOR: All of THEM need to be on the rocketship to the Sun, too.
The Pale Scot
@satby: FUCK. I MEAN WTF?
I hope you find him under your bed in a hat box, that sucks dude.
Groucho48
@Amir Khalid:
Sounds like an average John Cole day. My sympathies.
karen marie
@Shalimar: I would be delighted if Trump did create a Space Force and all of his supporters joined up. Short of that, meh.
Ben Cisco
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